Important Dates
 

Please note that the submission format is different this year.  See below for submission guidelines and LaTeX style files.  The POPL 2005 submission deadline has passed.

Scope of the Conference

The annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation, implementation and verification of programming languages, programming systems, and programming abstractions. Both experimental and theoretical papers on principles and innovations are welcome, ranging from formal frameworks to reports on practical experiences.

Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify new research directions. POPL 2005 is not limited to topics discussed in previous symposia. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the program chair prior to submission.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be full papers, similar in scope and size to what would appear in the proceedings of the symposium. Formatting requirements for submissions and other details are given below.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. A submitted paper should clearly express the contribution of the work, both in general and in technical terms. It is essential to identify what was accomplished, describe the significance of the work, and explain how the paper compares with, and improves upon, previous work.

Authors should bear in mind that individual program-committee members will be asked to referee many submissions; while every effort will be made to assign submissions to an appropriate subset of the program committee, very few papers are likely to be reviewed solely by experts in a paper's topic area. A good rule of thumb is that an informed colleague (with expertise in programming languages) should be able to form an initial judgment of the technical content of a submission in 40 minutes. Some advice about how to prepare a good submission can be found here.

Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and formal proceedings of conferences and workshops). See the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by September 20, 2004. The final version of accepted papers must be received in camera-ready form by November 1, 2004 for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign ACM copyright release forms. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press.

Submission Details

Submissions, including text, figures, and bibliography must fit in 15 pages, on two columns, with 10 point font on 12 point baseline, columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). Pages should be numbered. (Please note that this is not the standard ACM proceedings format: it is less compact, and the page limit is correspondingly higher.  The format for final papers may be different.) We encourage the use of this LaTeX class file (acmconfbig.cls) or this LaTeX style file (acmconfbig.sty). 

Authors who feel it is absolutely necessary to include additional material may place it in a well-marked appendix after page 15, but committee members are under no obligation to review this material.

Titles, abstracts, and full papers should be submitted via the submission web site. The short abstracts should be approximately 1-3 paragraphs in ASCII.  The full papers should be in PDF (preferably) or Postscript that is interpretable by Ghostscript and printable on US Letter and A4 size paper.

The submission deadline for titles and short abstracts is Friday, July 9, 2004, 17:00 UTC/GMT. The submission deadline for the corresponding full papers is Friday, July 16, 2004, 17:00 UTC/GMT.

Submissions deviating from these specifications and late submissions may not be considered.